Online Computer Terms Dictionary - U

Unix weenie

<jargon> (ITS) 1. A derogatory play on "Unix wizard", common among
hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication
is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to
be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate
(and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is
alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to parse its
arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been written by a real Unix
weenie."

2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often
appearing in the context "stupid Unix weenie".